An employee-absenteeism policy might include information about when a doctor's note is required, but it does not necessarily need to require a doctor's note in all situations. This might prove to be onerous to employees who are genuinely ill at home for a day but are not ill enough to visit a doctor. Additionally, a requirement for a note for each sick day absence would be an inappropriate policy, as the employee might be out for 4-5 days but is not likely to see the doctor each of those days. A good policy should, however, include the following: a statement about how many sick days each employee receives, an indication of how sick days are counted within the calendar, and information about how each absence is counted in days.

A cash balance plan is considered "portable" because employees can remove the money from the plan and convert the payment into other forms. A prof it-sharing plan, also known as a discretionary contribution plan, is considered to be best in a company that has highly variable annual prof its. A money purchase plan of fers employees a fixed annual percentage and thus is best in a company that has fairly consistent annual earnings. A target benefit plan uses actuarial formulas to determine how much an employee will receive toward retirement

During an (merger and acquisition), HR should compare four aspects of the companies that are being merged: I) structural issues such as conflicts in culture betwveen the organizations, 2) legal issues such as compliance provisions, 3) technological considerations such as which technologies are being used by the companies, and 4) financial considerations such as existing labor contracts.

It takes only one complaint about a potential FLSA violation for a government audit to occur. As a result businesses are expected to take FLSA rules seriously, and the human resources prof essional must be very familiar with the rules to avoid even an unintentional violation. The other answer choices (2, 3, and 5) are all too high. By the time that many complaints arise, the audit will already be in progress or have been completed.

Minimum wage law is as follows: the federal minimum wage is primary if the state minimum wage is lower than the federal minimum wage. If the state minimum wage is higher than the federal level, however, the company is required to pay the state minimum wage. In other words, companies are expected to pay whatever happens to be higher. There are, of course, a number of variables that can affect minimum wage and what a company is expected to pay, but in this question, one should assume that Grace Clothing in Calif ornia is required to pay whatever happens to be the higher minimum wage. This means that answer choices A and B are immediately incorrect. In the case of answer choice D, the question does not provide any information about the size of the company, so the answer choice becomes irrelevant to the discussion. (Again, it must be assumed based on the question that Grace Clothing is required to pay minimum wage; the real question is which minimum wage?). The minimum wage is the minimum a company is expected to pay employees. Any commissions represent an addition to payment, but because commissions cannot be guaranteed, they cannot compensate for lower minimum wage.